National-World

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Traders on Wall Street and many investors are in a good mood. Stocks soared Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said rate hikes could ease this month. With this recent rise, the Dow is more than 20% above its 52-week low, which puts it in a new bull market. Here’s

By Aya Elamroussi and Holly Yan, CNN First, the good news: The lava spilling out of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano is slowing down, spreading out and not an immediate threat to people on the ground. Now the bad news: Possible health hazards remain as two volcanoes keep erupting on Hawaii’s Big Island, sending acidic gases

By Raja Razek, CNN An Ohio man accused along with his family members of the 2016 massacre of another family was found guilty of multiple murder charges Wednesday. A jury convicted George Wagner IV in the murders of eight people, seven of whom were members of the Rhoden family, who were all shot to death

By Mallika Kallingal, Jason Hanna, Veronica Miracle, Jason Kravarik and Travis Caldwell, CNN Six people may have lived in the house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last month, police say. “Investigators are aware of a sixth person who could have potentially lived at the residence. That person was not at the residence on

By Joe Sutton, CNN Survivors of the fatal mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, have filed a $27 billion class action lawsuit against multiple law enforcement agencies in Texas, according to court documents. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Austin, names the city, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, the

By Liam Reilly, CNN A nine-figure settlement between the estate of Jeffrey Epstein and the US Virgin Islands has been signed, according to the islands’ attorney general. Epstein’s estate — as well as two co-defendants and 10 Epstein-created entities — will disburse over $105 million cash to the US Virgin Islands government, US Virgin Islands

By Florencia Trucco, CNN Mexican-American drug trafficker Edgar Valdez Villareal, alias “La Barbie,” is “not currently in federal custody” in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Prisons told CNN. Valdez Villarreal’s name appears as “not in BOP custody” on the agency’s website, CNN confirmed Tuesday. When asked why, bureau spokesperson Benjamin O’Cone declined to

By Andi Babineau, CNN Former US Army corporal and Medal of Honor recipient Hiroshi “Hershey” Miyamura has died, according to a news release from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society. He was 97 years old. Miyamura was born on October 6, 1925, in Gallup, New Mexico. He joined the Army in January 1945 as part

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Nearly 20% of California’s urban water agencies reported they could see significant water shortages in the coming months as the state braces for a potential fourth consecutive year of drought. After surveying urban water agencies representing roughly 90% of the state’s population, the California Department of Water Resources early this week